college and was there was a litics terrific political newsletter called the american political guy kevin phillips did who was a political strategist nixon.esident it was like eight or 10 pages, pages, every other week and the front part of it was sort of macro, big picture themes of american politics. the last couple of pages was the wyoming and what was going on in each state. to the back go pages, alabama, arkansas, going through all of the states to see what was going on. then i would read the front part because i thought to the front part of it was sort of macro, big picture themes of american me that was like cocktail party conversation. it was sort of vaguely interesting but not that important. as i sort of had my career progressed i started realizing ait a minute, it is the stuff in the front that drives what is happening in the back. as sort of as i themes are the important. a lot of people particularly younger people tend to think we on some ofh emphasis the big expect stuff but over matter an ms to enormous amount. at the beginning of each i start off and ask myself two questio